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Giardiasis Learning Center
Prevention could include:
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Washing Hands with Soap and Water
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Maintain Good Personal Hygiene
- Practice Safe Sex
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Use Boiled or Purified Water
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Use a water purification method such as boiling, filtration, or iodine treatment before drinking surface water. Hikers or others who use surface water should consider all sources as potentially contaminated.
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The best way to avoid giardiasis is to avoid drinking untreated surface water, especially from mountain streams. The condition also can be minimized by practicing the following preventive measures: thoroughly washing hands before handling food mai...
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Safe sex means taking precautions during sex that can keep you from getting a sexually transmitted disease (STD), or from giving an STD to your partner. These diseases include genital herpes, genital warts, HIV, chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis, hep...
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